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RAGNALL CASTLE.
When I had finished reading this amazing document I lit my pipe and set to work to think it over.

The hypothetical inquirer might ask why I thought it amazing.

There was nothing odd in a dilettante Englishman of highly cultivated mind taking to Egyptology and, being, as it chanced, one of the richest men in the kingdom, spending a fraction of his wealth in excavating temples.

Nor was it strange that he should have happened to die by accident when engaged in that pursuit, which I can imagine to be very fascinating in the delightful winter climate of Egypt.